skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a non-lawyer, I'd be interested to know if existing Paypal customers in the US can request a declaratory judgement on the enforceability of the arbitration clauses. I feel there would be a beneficial chilling effect on service providers if customers could bring class-action suits for declaratory remedies about adhesive and unconscionable/inequitable terms of service—that is, without having to first breach the terms of the contract (which could only happen on an individual basis and in which case the playing field would be massively un-level).
I'd say we are proof that they can be. ;)

Saying that humans are pattern matching engines seems equivalent to saying VW Bugs are internal combustion engines to me though.
The acronyms don't matter. They'll be back again and again.

"Independent Sen. Joe Lieberman’s cybersecurity bill failed to gain majority support in the Senate in August, but now he is pushing for President Obama to issue an executive order to compensate."

http://dailycaller.com/2012/09/26/lieberman-pushes-obama-to-...
For what it's worth, I have some home automation setup that checks for my iPhone's presence on wifi (my phone gets on wifi every ~10 minutes on battery, and holds a connection when plugged in). I preordered a Lockitron, and plan to use the API in my "welcome home" script trigger to unlock the door.

I'm not sure how easily you could implement this sort of detection on Lockitron's end, though. I use a static DHCP lease on my router and simply ping the phone.

Just thinking out loud here! Wifi presence seems super useful from my limited experience, and I'm not sure why more tech things aren't using it.
but they won't do that, because they have and always will be a leaching industry. Any new revenue stream that emerges they're going to frantically latch onto.
I know you're kidding, but I'd love to play with a sandboxed browser-in-a-browser.
That is not an idiotic question at all, it's a very good question. The reason is that (as you surmised) the rovers are very far away. Which begs the obvious question: why didn't they land a rover closer? That's a much harder question to answer. Landing site selection is a complex and somewhat political process. But there have been two polar missions, one successful, one not:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Polar_Lander
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_(spacecraft)
Google Mars, the hero Gotham deserves, but not the one it needs right now.
That's not the right question. How many highly qualified Google or Facebook engineers would jump for the chance to work at Microsoft if it meant that their salary would double or triple overnight? Suddenly Microsoft doesn't have a tech hiring problem.

Edit: Also, more of our "best and brightest" would choose tech majors (thus qualifying themselves to work at major internet companies) if they paid as much as traditional white-collar professions.
Ask HN: What can a nerd do with fiber connection?
I was wondering what would a nerd/hacker do with a 50mbps bandwidth? I'm accepting answers from "participate in a DoS" to "create a bandwidth-hog gadget".
I'm glad you liked it. I was lucky to take a statistics course with Prof. Toom at undergrad.
There is no phase inversion here. When the signals are the same there is just no voltage across the speaker. Think of it as putting 5 volts on both sides of the speaker, the voltage difference from one side of the speaker to the other is 0 volts, so no current flows and the speaker is at rest.
Brilliant article! It's so important to highlight the multifarious roles played by women throughout the tech sector.

Although I'll temper that by noting there's work to be done in addressing the gender balance in engineering and encouraging the next generation of women developers - there's a Charlie Rose interview with Sheryl Sandberg and Marc Andreessen, where Sheryl noted that at a recent programming camp for kids there were very few girls.
What, like Myspace?
if it's all about taking risks then why don't you take one and borrow 120k to pay for a developer? oh, you don't want to do that now do you? well that is exactly what the developer risks ~100k
OK, this question is coming from someone who works in marketing as his full time job.

So you're saying providing details is bad and vagueness is good. Vagueness "incites curiosity" which increases signups.

Not sure if I like that. Feels a bit unethical. You are intentionally holding back information for the sole reason of increasing signups. If you showed the product, or listed the features, or provided more details, signups goes down? That's a sign you need to improve your product.
So, you have an idea, and all you need is a technical guy to make it happen.

The problem is, whatever your idea is, you're failing to sell it to the very people you need to help make it succeed.

"the technical co-founder should understand that it's a startup" is a bogus excuse. The co-founder you're looking for is smart enough to take your idea and implement it, but you don't respect his or her ability to assess risk?

If you're selling an idea and no one's buying, you're either not making clear how you expect the idea to succeed, or you're being very clear and your potential co-founders don't think it's worth the risk.
sigh Another non-standards-based IoT device for the short sighted and excitable Kickstarter crowd. An equivalent to the level of interoperability that the web introduced is coming to the IoT space. These proprietary things are and most certainly will become junk.
To be fair, it's not clear to what extent Kickstarter was actually auditing projects (in light of the various complaints)
No trouble and agreed - rumours flying around like that don't help the problem. If there was that level of security breech, outsiders would probably do more than lock everybody out anyway.

Finding further information about it: looks like a core switch died with the backup not kicking in. 12 hours to work around is a but much though.
Mona Lisa in pure CSS
on launch the iPhone didn't have a great camera. (Or apps)
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Well, you could do some serious analytics by being subscribed to tens of thousands of RSS feeds, or random searching for strings in news stories or comments to identify origin points more effectively.
Too funny. The link doesn't work until you remove the suite. This one does. http://goo.gl/maps/VOCLl

Like that there's nothing on my desk --you should see the area under my monitor, it's like a junky drawer-- but kinects mounted on my monitors wouldn't be my first choice either, but if you were to add some object recognition and 3D scanning features I might change my mind.

Pick up the brush -> starts photoshop.
Pick up my camera -> start photo import tools.
Pick up my Project A folder (marked with a sticker, think evernote) -> opens all relevant files for project A, etc etc.

Is anyone developing a wristband/glove gyro-thingamajig yet? Seems so much simpler to me. Bluetooth, a gyro, and you're halfway. No issues with "range" etc.
What about US developers living abroad, working US time zones, with US bank accounts?
Beyond the problem with stealing pixel for pixel, to me, it's sad: Svbtle does have a distinct look that implicitly indicates you're part of the network. Using a copy in turns implies that you would like to be part of the network, but you can't because you're not friends with Dustin Curtis/don't have enough clout.

Because if you're really just interested in a clean blog design, it's really not that hard to make your own.

(I say that as someone who doesn't really like the Svbtle "elitism", though I give Dustin Curtis credit for picking great writers in general)
In filing #2012 Samsung says this:

3. In response to Samsung’s motion detailing Velvin Hogan’s failure
to reveal his litigation with Seagate during voir dire and its impact on the
integrity of the trial and the verdict, Apple demanded that Samsung
disclose the timing of its knowledge regarding those facts. A true and
correct copy of Apple’s email, along with further correspondence
between counsel for the parties that resulted in Apple’s agreement that any
such disclosures would not constitute a waiver of any privilege, is
attached hereto as Exhibit A. By way of separate declaration,
Samsung is confirming to Apple that it did not know of Mr. Hogan’s undisclosed
litigation against Seagate until after the verdict. To date, Apple has not
revealed whether it was aware of Mr. Hogan’s litigation against Seagate
prior to the verdict or prior to Samsung’s Motion.
Android NFC Hackathons - sponsored by Verizon, Facebook, Github, etc
If you can't waive your rights, you can't even settle out of court. That's what a settlement is -- an agreement to waive right to due for some payment.
Each artist only needs a few patrons, so as long as the tail of patronage is as long as the tail of consumption each consumer only needs to patronize (is that the right word?) a few artists. I've seen this work for small indie bands with small but loyal followings (ex: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/745015920/the-new-giraff...). Basically, it assumes that each band has a few people that like them a lot as opposed to a lot of people that like them a little.
According to Groklaw, Apple asked via email and Samsung has denied this in a filing.

"By way of separate declaration, Samsung is confirming to Apple that it did not know of Mr. Hogan’s undisclosed litigation against Seagate until after the verdict." --Samsung, #2012

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20121002201632770
Words on a page.
Do you keep logs? The idea that you've got a record of every time I've entered or left my house creeps me out enough that I wouldn't use this as a customer. On the other hand, if I were building this, I'd be pretty interested in what I might be able to do with this data.
Looks cool, but the site was a bit abrupt, it looked like i landed on someone musician's myspace page. I think it could use a bit more clean/minimalism.
I really can't agree with this. Most users are not going to dig down into the Android settings panel and manually enable app side loading and that's the only way to install alternate software.

This is exactly how things work on Macs now and Mac users aren't exactly swimming in malware.
Not the point - it might do even better if it looked sturder to <i>consumers</i>.
Thank you for hosting me. Even though briefly, I really enjoyed my stay with you. Congratulations for your hard work and persistance, I hope you guys do great!
Well, if the phone still works and you need something replaced under warranty, you can always factory reset it.
If the phone DOESNT work, then there is no way for them to tell that it's jailbroken in the store...
Or we can use our phones. It's next to my keyboard anyhow.

http://synrg.ee.duke.edu/papers/mobi198-agrawal.pdf
We have that. It's called last.fm.
Amdahl's Law did throw a damp cloth over the fire of enthusiasm about parallel computing...for a while. But then we got Gustafson's Law:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustafson%27s_Law

Gustafson and Barsis pointed out that Amdahl assumed a fixed input size. If instead you grow the problem size along with the number of processors, the speedup from parallelism grows indefinitely. Of course, like Amdahl, they assume perfect load balancing and don't factor in communication overhead. But parallel still beats the pants off of serial if we want to keep solving larger and larger problems.
As stated by the docs:

Use of the Google Geocoding API is subject to a query limit of 2,500 geolocation requests per day

if you're using the server endpoint, which perhaps checks what server the request is coming from- I have no idea. The JS, client-side version definitely requires a key.
I would like to find the first form on their page, find out where it posts to and post my opt out there. If the web server responds with a 200 OK then I know they got it so I have opted out and received a confirmation that they got my message.

Also I don't need to do this, because I'm in Norway and I have no reason to join an American class action suit and in Norway you can't sign away your rights in this manner.
There is one good thing about the method they've chosen...if you could rally up tens of thousands of PayPal users, they would be swamped.
No question about it we need more women in each of the roles Rebekah mentioned. Do you have the link to that interview? I'd love to listen to / watch it!
Also relevant: https://github.com/coolwanglu/pdf2htmlEX
Sorry about that, I added it now.
This is so awesome. These are the d3 screencasts I've been waiting for.
Apple has stated publicly that they consider jailbreaking illegal and void your warranty if you do it. It's only still possible because people keep finding holes in their code.

Your analogy doesn't work because the only way to open the door on your Apple house is to pick the lock.
I've posted this before, but what Francis Ford Coppola said is very relevant to the topic:

http://the99percent.com/articles/6973/Francis-Ford-Coppola-O....

"We have to be very clever about those things. You have to remember that it’s only a few hundred years, if that much, that artists are working with money. Artists never got money. Artists had a patron, either the leader of the state or the duke of Weimar or somewhere, or the church, the pope. Or they had another job. I have another job. I make films. No one tells me what to do. But I make the money in the wine industry. You work another job and get up at five in the morning and write your script.
This idea of Metallica or some rock n’ roll singer being rich, that’s not necessarily going to happen anymore. Because, as we enter into a new age, maybe art will be free. Maybe the students are right. They should be able to download music and movies. I’m going to be shot for saying this. But who said art has to cost money? And therefore, who says artists have to make money?
In the old days, 200 years ago, if you were a composer, the only way you could make money was to travel with the orchestra and be the conductor, because then you’d be paid as a musician. There was no recording. There were no record royalties. So I would say, “Try to disconnect the idea of cinema with the idea of making a living and money.” Because there are ways around it."
maybe to make web app to do that ? :-)
Think it can be totally be applied to Apple.
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This is exactly my experience with Twitter and I thought I was the only one.
That doesn't work. Health care is inherently expensive. If you get a serious condition and need years of treatment, then it has to be paid for. But most people don't. This is why the insurance model exists -- the majority of people who aren't (yet) sick pay for the care of those who are.

You can't wave a magic wand and make major surgery or chemotherapy affordable. All real world solutions here are collective, they differ only in whether access is fair and what entity (public or private) does the collection and distribution.
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Hey man, I'm in the same boat in the sense that I'm ready to make my first hire. It is hard - yes - but hopefully that's because you've set your standards high. I think it's about attitude. I'm determined to put an A-Team together for an idea that is backed by a solid pitch and has industry traction. If you're able to articulate your idea clearly and with passion - make people excited - then you will, eventually, find people very willing to jump on board or recommend friends.

I'm taking my time with it, as the right team is crucial to success. As a random aside, I'm even going tech partner 'speed dating' next week! (I'm actually ridiculously nervous...having been with my husband for 8 years, I don't have a clue how to go on a speed 'date' lol)
Leisure: ocean blue. Productive: muted red.
Others have answered you far better. It should be noted that there aren't newspaper articles praising increases in the prices of food, gas or clothing, but there are for house prices. Heck increasing house prices are mentioned in the context of politicians and giving them credit for doing such good things (hence my wording of "triumph").

I don't know why you think the housing market is a free market. If it was then this headline would not be possible "Obama policies ended housing free fall". And what about all the tax credits - not a free market. And what about the government pseudo agencies (Fannie/Freddie) - again not a free market. Planning permissions and zoning regulations are also part of the discussion about a free market. Even relocation allowance being taxable or not is an issue. I'd be far happier with an actual free market rather than one favoured by tax and similar policies with the goal of increasing the prices and hence taking money away from other things. (I also believe in a separate social safety net - all residents should have shelter, food, health and justice.)

Back to my original point, which scenario do you think is better for a household taking home $4,000 a month - one where they spend $1 of that on housing or where they spend $2,500 of that on housing? I think the former would greatly benefit the country. (Obviously the exactly $1/house wouldn't happen but this is about the general order of magnitude of pricing.)
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wow it reminds me a lot of a music site I had a hand in, http://songspin.fm - it has a bit of traction, but this area is definitely a tough nut to crack
TCP/IP/BT4
I joined Twitter several years ago but I still had the same experience.
I thought this was going to be a rant but was pleasantly surprised.

I really liked the product page breakdown – sort of rudimentary, but pretty helpful. I'd be really interested in seeing more launches/product pages dissected like this.

Anyone know of a blog/site/resource that does this type of thing on the regular?
Coming in through the frontpage is rough as most of our referral traffic comes through Facebook viral loops so we've allotted our waking hours to optimize for that funnel. But you're right and we're going to be overhauling the whole design soon to get it cleaner and more minimal once we finish building out the BETA features! (Conor CEO wavo)
How could you make that comment and not link to http://www.terrybisson.com/page6/page6.html
No, I think it's that even if each channel gets the same bitrate, if there's more "going on" in one channel than the other, there may be fewer bits to go around and that channel may have more qualitative loss. So if they both have the vocals equally, but one also has bass drum, the one with the base drum may lose more fidelity on the vocals than the channel with vocals alone.
Mars is an entire world, it's a big place, we only have two rovers on the planet and they can travel at perhaps 10 km per year.
This is a nice project, but different goals. I don't want my HTML output to look like a PDF. I want it to look like a nicely formatted web document
Show HN: Tracking voter discussion of the Presidential debates
Votizen is working to remove the influence of money in politics by making political decision-making more peer-to-peer.

We're using Twitter and our API to pull tweets from only registered voters, and showing how the discussion breaks down among the parties. This has never been done before as far as I know, not even by the major media outlets.

Please check it out and let me know what you think. If people are interested, we'll work to improve it for the further debates and campaigns.
Okay, I feel better knowing that it's one configuration change away. The Internet had lead me to believe that I needed to download a plugin to make this work. :-/

That said, their fancy source navigation tool breaks the formatting of the ascii art. :-(
Bloomberg is at the intersection of technology and financial content. I'm surprised that more startups don't try to go into this segment.
They all require your input though. A lot of people listen to the radio- something they have absolutely no control over. It's interesting to think what will happen to them.
Get a performant IE6 running inside Chrome, and I'd pay good money for that.
Show HN: Realtime Backchannel During Presidential Debate (Tonight)
Joustin Bieber was a youtube sensation before any label hired him.
Great operas existed before the record labels... when they are gone musicians and theater and performance directors will continue to produce great art.
I admit it was a bit difficult to focus after first paragraph which I interpreted as the premise of the whole post and which I consider to be wrong. I read again. No, author is not really on my side: he just says Netflix needs to take a different approach. I say they need "no approach": focus on making content available, more of it and in more ways, on more devices and platforms. At least that's what I pay them for, not for sharing options.
Your Airbrake API key is exposed on the client side. I would fix that up as soon as possible.
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It might be legal, but if found out it would almost certainly get their motion denied, which is why Apple aggressively pursued a statement from Samsung about whether or not they knew. As a result, Samsung has made a declaration they did not know, and so at this point if it later turns out they did now, they're in trouble.
We borrowed a (very generous, awesome) friend's Cannon DSLR. And another (very generous, awesome) friends Zoom H4N and Røde Shotgun mic for sound.

Rough cuts were made using iMovie (super low tech but very quick) and once we settled on an approach that was 'working' we polished it up in After Effects.

Most of the trick to "good enough" photography or filming is good lighting. For this we borrowed some other (very generous, awesome) friends' lights. For outdoor shots were we couldn't use artificial lights; we waited till the Magic Hour (dusk). We got a door frame from Home Depot and drove it up to the top of Skyline to get one of the shots with the scenic overview.
Hey @joelrunyon, agreed that it'd be great to see this done on a more detailed basis. I just threw this one together because I was impressed with how they copied the Kickstarter approach, which I hadn't seen done in exactly this way before for a launch (an obvious approach, but effective).

If you want to add more detailed feedback in the comments section on my post (or here) I'll be happy to dig into it more.

Has anyone actually pre-ordered that might have more feedback?

DROdio
As someone who did typeset his thesis not too long ago to forget all that lot of tiny tweaks I had to make to get a perfect print out from LaTeX, I would say that this project has a lot of issues. Some of them a more or less easy to fix, but some of them will be hard. Consider wrapping some specific paragraph in a \fussy / \sloppy pair, or hammering a specific float to this page, or ... (this list is really long). Not to mention bibliography tools. I don't claim that these issues are unsolvable, but the deeper you go into solving them the more you will discover that you are basically re-implementing LaTeX.

While the idea of multi-format thesis, or at least double format - PDF and HTML, is very compelling, I doubt there could be good enough solutions for that for any thesis which contains more then just text and some inconsiderate amount of figures/tables/formulae at all.
In order to pay the billion dollar fine, Samsung could be forced to liquidate some of its assets, including its stake in Seagate. This in turn could cause the price of Seagate to drop.
I'm keeping my fingers crossed for a giant sentient fungus.
I wouldn't really call Oracle a better place...
BarackObama.com vs. MittRomney.com
I know from certain sources that the next Kinect version is going to be at least as accurate as the Leap and probably moreso. Curious if your project will adapt to providing a Mac/Linux compatible API layer for the new hardware.
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If windows had an error in system32, and refused to load, and a linux ubuntu live disk refused to mount the windows partition, what would you do?